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**O. B A U E R. "THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY"**34

Otto Bauer: The National Question and Social Democracy. St. Petersburg, 1909.

From § 30: "Socialism and the Principle of Nationality," p. 534: ...

"A socialist community will never be in a position to forcibly incorporate entire nations into its composition. Imagine the masses of a people, possessing all the blessings of national culture, taking full and active participation in legislation and administration, moreover armed with weapons—would it be possible to forcibly subject such nations to the state of an alien social organism? All state power rests upon the force of arms. The present people's army, thanks to its skillful mechanism, still constitutes an instrument in the hands of a definite person, family, class, just as the knightly and mercenary armies of past times. But the army of a democratic community of socialist society represents nothing other than the armed people, since it consists of highly cultured individuals, working uncoercedly in public workshops and taking full participation in all spheres of state life. Under such conditions, all possibility of foreign-national domination disappears" (534) (this is the end of § 30).

The United States of Europe! A "idle dream," not "an inevitable conclusion of the path upon which nations have long embarked" (542); If socialist Germany wished to release some of its workers to Ukraine, it (Germany) would not release them without "guaranteeing them their cultural autonomy" (543)__.

In § 29: "Imperialism and the Principle of Nationality" (512–529 of the Russian translation), the author cites Multatuli on British imperialism, takes the dissolution of Turkey, Italy's striving to seize Albania: "They will point to Trieste and Trieste, but they will be thinking of Albania" (519). "In this way it will be possible for the masses of the Italian nation to present an imperialist war with conquering aims as a war for national freedom" (519)__.

Baghdad, Russia in Persia, etc.—"such are the seeds and elements of these future conflicts" (518)....

Similarly, "British imperialism unfolds before the electoral masses an enticing picture of a 400-million empire under the dominion of a single British nation and thinks thereby of the cartel profits of iron magnates and speculation on the London exchange."* "When Russian imperialism announces, probably, the freedom and unity of Poland and Ukraine, in order to open new markets to Petersburg, Moscow and Łódź manufacturers"... "so too must German imperialism appear as the heir to the great-German idea of 1848, must inscribe on its banner the realization of a single great German fatherland, when it decides to sacrifice the lives of German workers and peasants for the interests of capital on the Tigris and Euphrates" (522–523)....

"The destruction of Austria within capitalist society can be the work only of imperialism" (528)...

"The dissolution of Austria presupposes the victory of imperialism in Germany, Russia and Italy. But the victory of imperialism presupposes the defeat of the working class in these countries" (527). Austrian workers must not pin their hopes on the victory of imperialism....

**S. GRIMBACH. "The Error of Zimmerwald-Kienthal"**

S. Grimbach: Der Irrtum von Zimmerwald-Kienthal. Bern, 1916. (p. 95) (the banality of a social-opportunist).

P. 24: ..."But even if he (Kautsky) did not clearly recognize the situation on August 4, 1914, he still remains for us (!!!) and for the socialists of all countries one of the leading theoreticians of the International"__.

P. 26: ..."General equalization, as preached by Zimmerwald and Kienthal"...........

— P. 40 — Upon Vaillant's proposal — Keir-Hardie — the German social-democrats did not respond and in Chemnitz (1913), contrary to their promise, did not discuss it (for the Vienna 1914 congress).!!! (Nonsense! As if Lenin & Co. could carry this out!!). (Cf. Grimm's letter to the Swiss party, idem).

The French minority too for defense of the fatherland!! (—54—). [Grimm in August and November 1914 was also for defense of the fatherland — 68.]

P. 77: Lenin for the war over Morocco, etc. (p. 4 of the German pamphlet). "Here madness becomes method"! Morocco may defend itself, but France may not!! (A fool!).

P. 78: Lenin (Vorbote, No. 1) sees "the national..."